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Pope Francis prays during an interreligious peace appeal at the Colosseum in Rome, Oct. 25, 2022. / Vatican MediaRome, Italy, Oct 25, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis raised the spectre of nuclear war at an interreligious appeal for peace at the Colosseum on Tuesday. Speaking from a wheelchair on a stage beside Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu representatives, the pope underlined that he was making a plea for peace at a time when it has been "gravely violated, assaulted, and trampled upon … in Europe.""Today, in fact, something we dreaded and hoped never to hear of again is threatened outright: the use of atomic weapons, which even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki continued wrongly to be produced and tested," Pope Francis said Oct. 25.Francis highlighted how St. John XXIII pleaded with all government leaders to spare the world the horrors of war in 1962 at a time "when militar
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Pope Francis attends the concluding ceremony of the Prayer for Peace Meeting organized by the Sant Egidio Community at Rome s Colosseum, Oct. 7, 2021. / Vatican Media.Rome, Italy, Oct 7, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis asked leaders of world religions to resist "the temptation to fundamentalism" for the sake of peace at an interreligious gathering Thursday in front of the Colosseum.Peace "summons us to serve the truth and declare what is evil when it is evil, without fear or pretense, even and especially when it is committed by those who profess to follow the same creed as us," the pope said Oct. 7.Vatican Media."For the sake of peace, please, in every religious tradition let us defuse the temptation to fundamentalism and every tendency to view a brother or sister as an enemy."Speaking on a stage together with Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu representatives, Pope Francis appealed for peace amid the world s current conflicts.Vatican Media."Dear